My opinion (hope) is once approved by the SEC and the shareholders of both entities, the share price begins to move up, and this is when we start to see "good news" propel the share price and hold (definitely if the debt side comes in). I do not think any news right now will help the share price increase without the above approvals being in place.
DM; "Nothing particularly remarkable will happen until 1Q and the merger approval."
A lot of company share prices rise at year end and I would expect some for NIOBF. There might be some movement with the Results of the REE extraction. Around the annual meeting? As others have noted Mngmnt need to provide an updated FS within 45 days so maybe in Q1. Maybe some then.
Until we up list to NASDQ we will probably be mostly a penny stock party selling shares back and forth to each other in this shareholder group.